This year’s UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan kicked off with a fulsome celebration of fossil fuels, praised by the country’s president Ilham Aliyev as a “gift of God.” It ended with a climate finance deal developing countries called an insult, a joke and a betrayal.
The question at COP29 was how much wealthy countries, most responsible for the climate crisis, owe poor countries facing the worst impacts. The answer: $300 billion a year by 2035. Rich countries said it was the best they could do. Poorer countries called it “abysmal,” falling far below the $1.3 trillion economists say they need to cope with a crisis they have not caused.
In the wake of a chaotic, bitter summit and heavily criticized final deal, some experts are asking whether the whole COP process is now so lacking in ambition as to be almost worthless.
-CNN
We shall be known as the planet gobblers: we inherited an aromatic big green juicy planet and we gobbled it up
– Kurt Vonnegut
Lighthouses once warned of shoals and shore
Now swelling seas creep round their doors
tides surround the sentry’s beacon
Seasons make no sense
Reason’s on vacation
Heaven’s heatin up
Hade’s gettin nearer
Status quo limbo akimbo
The faithfuls’s prayers shall fail
The atmosphere has no ears
But the the fools hear all too well
As they retreat into the deceit of those who prosper
paying puppets: FOX and Carlson, TOWNHALL dot CON
screaming from the mean Republican Noise Machine
sowing doubt as they stoke our fears and fires
burning mountains, melting ancient ice
making whoopee as they tout their fall-back savior
Liquid NatureRaping Gas
Cheap and safe and clean my ass
poisoning aquifers with frack frack frack
Shit! Science itself’s now under attack!
We set an ambush for ourselves
burning our way to a self-made hell
Nature’s green lights gone
orange’s blinking now
CAUTION ..SLOW DANGER AHEAD
STOP!
It’s later than late
Ain’t nobody, no nothin’s got our backs
And Nature don’t negotiate
-A. Perfidious Wormcan